Networking 3Com’s Three Losing Bets Against Novell May 7, 2026 by mark | Leave a Comment I ran across this article written by Bob Metcalfe in 1991 about 3Com’s losing bets against Novell. This contained an important fact in our research about Ethernet development in the 1980s. To summarize the article, those losing bets were: Thanks to David Strom who originally posted scans of this on his Happy 40th birthday, Ethernet […] Read more » 3com etherlink etherseries netware novell
Networking A 1988 performance comparison of PC LAN servers May 5, 2026 by mark | Leave a Comment In our 1980s networking research, we came across this: a 1988 paper out of the National University of Singapore where Gee-Swee Poo and Tiow-Seng Tan benchmarked the file server performance of 3Com 3Plus, Novell Advanced Netware 286, and IBM PC Network, all running on IBM PC ATs (plus the dedicated 3Com 3Server thrown in for […] Read more » 3com 3server ethernet netware novell